Puck Magazine, centerfold. "Why not go the limit?" by Harry Grant Dart. Vol. 63, No. 1620. March 18, 1908

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Title

Puck Magazine, centerfold. "Why not go the limit?" by Harry Grant Dart. Vol. 63, No. 1620. March 18, 1908

Description

Full color cartoon published in Puck Magazine, a weekly humor magazine first published in 1871 until 1918. This page has been removed from the original issue.

Caption: "For the benefit of those ladies who ask the right to smoke in public."

Illustration shows a crowd of women in the "Mrs. P.J. Gilligan" bar smoking and drinking. Two children are standing by one table where a woman (their mother) is smoking.

One of the signs on the wall beside the bar reads: "Women sometimes: Ladies never spit on the floor./ Ladies will please refrain from throwing cigar butts in the free lunch./ No scrapping allowed on the premises."

Date

1908-03-18

Subject

Bars--1900-1910
Cartoons (Commentary)--1900-1910
Mother and child
Periodical illustrations --1900-1910
Smoking--1900-1910
Women--Clothing & dress--1900-1910
Women--Civil rights--1900-1910
Women--Social life--1900-1910

Creator

Dart, Harry Grant, 1869-1938

Publisher

New York : J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg.

Format

1 p.

Language

English

Original Format

Magazines (periodicals)

Photomechanical prints : offset, color

Physical Dimensions

32 x 50.5 cm.

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